短文改错周周练 （第三期）

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Direcions:This part consists of a short passage.In this passage.there are altogether 10 mistakes,one in each numbered line.You may have to change a word,add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided.if you change a word,cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank.If you add a word,put an insertion mark(∧)in the right place and write the missing word in the blank,If you delete a word,cross it out and put a slash(/)in the blank.
Example:
Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods.Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature as a school subject are valid for∧study of television.

A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which are nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale. Some cities
have lost their original purpose and have not found new one. And any S1.___
large or rich city is going to attract poor immigrants, who flood in,
filling with hopes of prosperity which are then often S2. ___
disappointing. There are backward towns on the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though
there were on the edge of seventeenth-century London or S3. ___
early nineteenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale. Descriptions S4.___
written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico City,
and the enormous contrasts that was to be found S5. ___
there, are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today - S6.___
the poor can still be numbered in millions. The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity,
but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as a promised land, S7. ___
that attracts immigrants from rural poverty and brings S8. ___
it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the country as a Garden of Eden, S9. ___
which, a few generations late, sends them flooding out again to S10. ___
the suburbs.